What projects should we take on?

• Share reward
  • Once per day, collect 10 mana for going to a share page (or maybe any market?) and clicking the copy-link button.
    • Yes — should work on any market, and the share button is a different color until you click it and claim a reward for copying the link. Then it goes back to regular color for the day
      • [s] + 1
  • [s] Is there some way to make a compelling share with your contacts flow?
• Market images
  • Show image upload option in market creation
  • Show market image on market page, if set
• Show better content to new users
  • Down-prioritize EA/rationalist or Destiny content
    • Check a box if you are an EA/rationalist or Destiny follower to keep it?
  • Find a way to incorporate group selections immediately in feed
  • Add back trending section to home?
• Get feedback from non-EA/rationalists
  • Ask people for feedback at every Solaris dinner. Or ask to watch them use the app
  • Set up hotjar and rotate who’s in charge of looking through the hotjar videos each week and typing up notes on what they learned
• Better feed
  • incorporate new, closing soon, markets by users you follow, markets with recent activity, and other unseen markets with a label introducing why it is being shown to you
  • [s] make images less prominent on market card
    • Pay mana to promote your market, or watch ads to earn mana.
• Mana-based ads
• Private groups
  • [s] we should build out the Leagues feature based on how people are using private groups
  • [s] making the share flow here good should be a top priority too

External-facing growth initiatives

• Discord bot promotion
  • Have a guide (either a Notion page or on the site) making it extremely easy to get started
  • [mqp] Fortified chat.
    • Implement user flows, get it into Fletcher
    • Not sure how to evangelize discord bot. Not sure if it’s much better than linking the site
    • Optimize it for betting on games (like twitch bot)?
• TikTok / YT shorts
• FB/Reddit/Twitter ad campaign

Austin’s thoughts

• Ship private groups
• Ship in-house ads
• Ship stonks
• Break into third community. Candidates:
  • Streamer/podcasting communities - anyone who has enough of a following to host meetups
    • Lex
    • Bankless
    • MrBeast
    • Politics streamers - Hasan?
  • SF startup/early employees
    • Specifically, AI startups
    • Hook: Private company valuation markets?
  • Progress studies
  • Gamers
    • Pro: similar mindset, well represented among existing Manifold userbase. Con: More offline than online, which is a headwind
    • MTG players?
    • Strategy board gamers?
    • Poker players?
    • Chess?
  • Serial fiction?
    • Webcomics, glowfic - speculating about story direction